1756, 1817, 2nd half of the 19th – 1st third of the 20th century FRANCISCI ZELENY E SOCIETATE JESU IN UNIVERSITATE PRAGENSI S. LINGUAE PROFESSORIS REG. PUBL. AC ORDIN. ET IN THEOLOGICIS EXAMINATORIS REGII INSTITUTIONES LINGUAE SANCTAE AUDITORUM SUORUM COMMODO, UTILITATIQUE DATAE ANNO MDCCLVI. PRAGAE, LITTERIS FRANCISCI IGNATII KIRCHNER, REGII TYPOGRAPHI. Format 8°, 18x10.7 cm. 199 numbered pages, in Latin and Hebrew. Title page with a decorative vignette printed in black, bearing the owner's signature "Anton Fischer". Complete with all 6 fold-out supplements (tables of Hebrew grammar, conjugation and the alphabet). Sturdy full-leather binding, spine with 4 raised bands. A textbook, basics of Hebrew for theology students. Printed by František Ignác Kirchner in Prague in 1756. Machzor (Jewish festival prayer book) vol. II. Format 8°, 18.5x11.5 cm. In Hebrew. Title page printed in black. Sturdy full-leather binding, spine with 2 raised bands and blind-tooled decoration. Printed by Anton Schmid, k. k. priv. Buchdrucker, in Vienna in 1817. Gebetbuch für Isrealiten. Mit sorgfältig durchgesehenem Texte übersetzt von Dr. M. Sachs. Neueste Ausgabe. Format 12°, 15.5x10 cm. 359 numbered pages, in Hebrew and German. Title page printed in black. Sturdy full-cloth binding with blind-tooled decoration with remnants of gilding, including gilt edges. Published by Josef Schlesingers Buchhandlung in Vienna and Budapest, undated. The books are slightly worn from use, the leather bindings bear traces of woodworm. František Zelený – Czech Jesuit, doctor of philosophy, philologist and professor. He was active in the post-White Mountain period, when scholars from the ranks of the Society of Jesus contributed significantly to the development of learning and science in the Czech lands. He taught at Prague's Charles-Ferdinand University, an important part of which was the Jesuit academy based at the Klementinum in Prague. Besides philology and languages, within the Jesuit school system of the time he also devoted himself to the natural sciences, which were then flourishing greatly within the order (together with other figures such as František Haselbauer). He was born in Moravia, spent a fruitful academic career in Prague, and ended his life's journey in 1766 in Klatovy, where an important Jesuit college and grammar school then operated.